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View original post.“You’re going to take our cars away!?” You might yell that, in disbelief, after reading the title of this article. And yet, in twenty to thirty years, people will voluntarily give their cars away, in favor of a radically different model of transport: mobility as a service. Several key technologies have recently emerged, which industry analysts believe will …

View original post.SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The robotic car company created by Google is poised to attempt a major technological leap in California, where its vehicles will hit the roads without a human on hand to take control in emergencies. The regulatory approval announced Tuesday allows Waymo’s driverless cars to cruise through California at speeds up to 65 miles per …

View original post.Volvo Car UK is harnessing the technology of Amazon Alexa to pilot the Volvo Fleet Manager Skill. Designed with the specific needs of its fleet customers in mind, the Skill aims to make their lives less complicated, and add value to their experience, says Volvo. The trial will see the delivery of an Amazon Echo Dot device to …

View original post. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is seen as one of the Next Big Things in transportation, allowing people to seamlessly plan and pay for door-to-door multi-modal journeys. The well-publicised Lisbon Study predicted how the introduction of a fleet of shared vehicles into the city would affect traffic. It discovered that by replacing all car and bus journeys with ride-sharing …

View original post. Fleet Live 2018 will examine alternatives to the traditional company car, with an in-depth look at the future of mobility. Christoph Domke, a director in KPMG’s Global Strategy Group, considers mobility to be a new industry, with the power and momentum to shake-up personal, fleet and freight transport in the same way that mobile phones transformed personal communication, …

View original post. A revolution in business mobility is just around the corner. Craig Thomas looks at what we can expect to help us travel more efficiently. “Alexa, what’s the quickest way to get to my meeting this morning?” This is going to be the kind of question many of us will be asking our digital assistants in our smart …

View original post. Mobility technology company Fleetondemand have developed major new capabilities to its core rental management and ground transportation technology. The 18-month development and investment has been designed to broaden the capability of the technology across wider connected automotive asset business models for both business and consumer mobility markets. A mobile-firstmobility experience for users can now be driven via a single automatic …

View original post. Paul Hollick believes in professional fleet management and is determined to make ICFM qualifications the recognised standard. Stephen Briers reports Fleet decision-makers and those with direct influence over policy and strategy have never faced such a jumble of complexity, confusion and rapid-paced change. From once being responsible solely for managing cars, their focus migrated to managing the …

View original post. Sharing is the future of mobility. Quite appropriately, the principle of car-sharing itself is increasingly shared – with different providers, wider applications, new geographies. A sampler. With its struggling automotive market and infrastructural problems, Russia is an unlikely source of mobility innovation. Nevertheless, the car-sharing capital of Europe is… Moscow. Traffic jams The Russian capital was recently …

View original post. Toyota Connected has announced the launch of a new startup division, dubbed Toyota Connected Europe (TCEU). The division will be focused on the launch and support of new shared mobility services and fleet management solutions in the region. The new Toyota Connected Europe startup will be based out of London (UK) and will see Toyota Motor Europe’s …